us/pa history 2

  • 1920s

    The Palmer Raids. 249 resident aliens rounded up and put on board the ship Buford headed for Soviet Union
  • 1920s

    November 2 – In the United States, KDKA (AM) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the presidential election.
  • 1920s

    emergency Quota Act established maximum number of people who could enter united states
  • 1920s

    A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later.
  • 1920s

    Fordney/McCumberTariff raised taxes on some US imports to 60% was the highest ever. It protected US businesses especilly the chemical and metal industrey made it impossible for Britan and France to sell enough goods to pay depts
  • 1920s

    Calvin Coolidge becomes president
  • 1920s

    Wings was the first movie in film history to win for best picture an the Oscars
  • 1920s

    Babe Ruth was the the first major league Baseball player to hit 60 homeruns in a season. Americans went wild.
  • 1920s

    Charles A Lindbergh made the first nonstop transatlantic flight. He took off near New York city, flew up the cost of Newfoundland and headed over the Atlantic. It took 33 hours and 29 minutes.
  • 1920s

    Henery Ford introduced the Model A
  • 1930s

    The Empire State Building was completed
  • 1930s

    The Bonus army marches
  • 1930s

    FDR spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal—a variety of programs designed to produce relief
  • 1930s

    2,600 schools across nation shut down more than 300,000 students out of school
  • 1930s

    dust on Airplanes landing in Boston. Collected on planes at up to 20,000 ft
  • 1930s

    Windstorm picked up up millions of tons of dust from plains and carried to East Coast
  • 1930s

    New York city. dust Lowers humanity from normal 57% to 34% dust reported on ships 500 miles out to sea.
  • 1930s

    FDR re-elected
  • 1930s

    Hindenburg disaster, killing 35 people and marking an end to airship travel
  • 1930s

    Nazi Germany invades Poland; World War II begins